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羡慕

xiàn mù

Old HSK 4 HSK 3.0 level 4 2-character word Traditional 羨慕

羡慕 (xiàn mù) means "to envy". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 4 in the old six-level list.

What 羡慕 means

1. to envy
2. to admire

The characters in 羡慕

• 羡xiànto envy
• 慕mùto admire

Example sentences

• 我羡慕他。
  I envy him.
• 好羡慕啊。
  I'm so jealous!
• 我羡慕他的新房子。
  I envied his new house.
• 她羡慕她表哥的成功。
  Tā xiànmù tā biǎogē de chénggōng.
  She was envious of her cousin's success.
• 他们都羡慕我的新车。
  They all envied my new car.
• 我很羡慕你现在的生活。
  Wǒ hěn xiànmù nǐ xiànzài de shēnghuó.
  I'm really jealous of your life right now.

Words starting with 羡慕

• 羡慕嫉妒恨xiàn mù jí dù hènto be green with envy (neologism c. 2009)

Words containing 羡慕

• 让人羡慕ràng rén xiàn mùenviable; to be admired

Where 羡慕 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Negative emotions & reactions (HSK 4), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 4 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiàn mù correctly.
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